A Montrose production company making a documentary on the social, economic and environmental impact of the Donald Trump golf course in Aberdeenshire will be allowed to film Friday’s presentation of an honorary degree to the American entrepreneur by Robert Gordon University.
Montrose Pictures claimed the university had blocked its journalists, who are making a documentary about the Trump project, from covering the event.
The company called on the university to reverse its decision and on Thursday documentary director Anthony Baxter welcomed the reversal of the ban.
He said, “I am pleased the university has changed its mind.
“It is only right that we should be given access to film the event.”
Mr Baxter said the initial ban by the university followed their filming of former principal Dr David Kennedy handing back his own degree in protest at Mr Trump receiving a similar award.
When he met the vice-principal, Dr Kennedy still had a microphone on from a previous interview with Montrose Pictures.
Dr Kennedy said the microphone had been switched off and the idea that the documentary makers were trying to secretly record his conversation with the vice-principal was preposterous.
A spokesman for the university said yesterday that it had “very good reasons at the time” for issuing the initial ban but had subsequently reconsidered the decision.